Case DIH-2084
Daniel Cham
A Covina, California, physician who sold oxycodone prescriptions written in the names of Oregon drug traffickers he had never met, with fake paperwork; an Oregon woman died after ingesting narcotics he had prescribed to members of that trafficking conspiracy.
- Court
- Federal, Central District of California
- State
- California
- Year sentenced
- 2018
- Drugs
- Oxycodone (prescriptions)
- Conduct
- Prescribing
- Relationship
- No direct contact
- Conviction
- Distribution of oxycodone; money laundering
- Plea or trial
- Plea
- Sentence
- 160 months in prison
- Found through
- Federal DOJ release search 2010–2026
This was a federal prosecution. For what California’s own law says about deaths caused by supplying drugs, see California in the state law guide.
Sources
- justice.govDoctor who illegally distributed prescription painkillers and laundered proceeds
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